Inside with God is the most precious place to be. Then he will open to you and invite you in. Knock and keep knocking until the one inside is roused.
#3 “knock and the door will be opened to you.”Ĭhrist calls us to knock on the door. These will lead to more effective prayer as the relationship with the Father becomes more intimate. Jesus has said to seek the Kingdom of God and to seek his righteousness. Seeking answers to the questions of our hearts about who God is, and who we are in light of that. Perhaps instead of seeing seeking as synonymous with asking, consider that to seek him is to desire to know his will. If he can possibly give us the thing for which we ask, he will. You do have because you do not ask (Ja 4:2). 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Breaking Down the Key Parts of Matthew 7:7 7 Ask, and it will be given to you seek, and you will find knock, and it will be opened to you. He is a good Father who loves to give gifts to his children. But the application is clear, we will experience more of God’s blessings if we trust him more and ask him more.
Jesus himself could not pray a prayer that God would answer against his own will (Mk 14:32-50). For everyone who asks receives the one who seeks finds. In this passage, his goal seems to be to build their faith, one of the key ingredients to answered prayer, and he bases it off of the character and nature of his Father in heaven. Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find knock and the door will be opened to you. There are times where that is true, but Jesus also teaches about motives, about faith, about the will of God, and about praying in Jesus’ name. Taken alone, it seems to say you only have to want something, and then ask your Father in heaven, and it will be done. Jesus seems to put no qualifiers on this verse. James 4:2-3 says that we don’t have because we do not ask, or if we do ask, it is with wrong motives. He tells his disciples that just like a good father gives good things to his children, so will your Father when we sincerely ask, seek, and knock. Jesus explains that our Father in heaven loves to answer our prayers and give us that which we seek. “Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find knock and the door will be opened to you.” Explanation and Commentary of Matthew 7:7
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